Best new/most anticipated albums: 2018
 

woohoo! Let's leave behind the year 2017 and look what's coming up in the new year 2018 !!!!!

and here's the first one:

EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK TO RELEASE SECOND SOLO RECORD PISSING STARS IN FEBRUARY 2018

I'm looking forward into this one a lot already. Looks like it will not be released on CD though? :confused: Or maybe just not yet...

Thanks for stealing my goddamn thread AGAIN. I was gonna post this tonight.

Oh well. I don’t care. you take it this year.

But ... goddamn man.

EDIT: It occurs to me that it might not have actually been you who did this exact same thing last year, and if that’s the case I’m sorry for getting shouty.

NEW TAPE DECK MOUNTAIN COMING IN FEBRUARY! First new LP since 2014!

what about best of 2017 thread.

Well, 2017 was a shitty year for music, but yeah we should probably have one.

I was also planning on making one of these, but not until the end of the year.
Anyone who wants to is free to.

Screaming Females have a new release coming... a couple of tracks have been released already. Marissa shreds on the guitar on a J Mascis level, so I've got a lot of time for their stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROpZSrq4Tf8

Hopefully that goddamn new Breeders album will come out. Loved the first tune from it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i76b0OrdIQ

Really?

I have think about my 2017 favs. too. wasnt listening to much of a new stuff anyway.

William´s Fowler Collins new record should be coming out soon and I am craving for this mother fucker release big time.

I forgot all about the fact that a new Breeders album was supposed to come out this year. Dammit. Hell yes that thing needs to come out!

Kind of. For me anyway.

I have a list of about 30 albums that I felt were worth noting this year. Of those 30, I might have 10 that I’d be willing to put in a “best of the year” list.

I normally have just an absolutely obscene amount of music by this point in the year. It often takes me until well into the following year to sort through the good albums, pick out the great ones, and then place them in order. This year I’m pretty sure I already have my list finished, and I haven’t even started it yet.

Maybe I’m wrong and totally missing out on a bunch of shit though. You tell me.

I’m not questioning you, merely, you’re the only one I’ve seen sum up 2017 this way. I’m not position to debate as I’ve missed out on so much.

I might have missed out on some stuff too. I wasn’t being sarcastic or anything. I really am open to the possibility that I’m wrong.

But what I’ve noticed is a lot of OK albums by good or formerly good artists, a lot of albums that are supposed to be good by newer artists that are actually quite boring, a shitload of truly mediocre releases from indie legacy bands like Iron & Wine, Grizzly Bear, Arcade Fire, GY!BE, etc., and a handful of really mind-blowing albums that are either be super obvious (like Kendrick) or went by without making any waves at all (like Blanck Mass’s excellent “World Eater”).

Some artists I really admire like Ben Frost have come out with good albums that are also their least remarkable.

I was pleasantly surprised by a few records in the rock realm, but not a lot. Yossarians, Milk Music, a few others I can’t recall just now.

I dunno. Feels like a very so-so year.

DJ Koze is working on a new album according to his social media ... uh... presence. Or maybe it was Resident Advisor. I dunno.

New Koze has been my #1 most anticipated non-Kanye album for the past five years.

Can’t say it’s “anticipated” nor an “album,” but this Acid Bowie -Acid Bowie has infinite mixtape possibilities. Those who venture the samples will experience lush treats.

My 2018 Wishlist

Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet - Landfall
The Bad Plus
Bardo Pond - Volume 8‎
Courtney Barnett
Belly - Mumble Rap
Breeders
Butthole Surfers
David Byrne - American Utopia
John Cale
Cat Power
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Eric Chenaux ‎
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Dark Buddha Rising - II
Earth
The End
The Ex
Nils Frahm - All Melody
FIRE! - The Hands
Eleanor Friedberger
Keiji Haino & SUMAC - American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To ‎Look At Face On
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl‎
Daniel Higgs/Grumbling Fur
Insect Ark - Marrow Hymns
Kinski
Laniakea
Magik Markers
Stephen Malkmus
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
Manic Street Preachers - Resistance Is Futile
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars ‎
Miracle - The Strife Of Love
Moor Mother
Mudhoney ‎
My Bloody Valentine
No Age - Snares Like A Haircut ‎
Pharaoh Overlord - Zero ‎
Sunwatchers - II
Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point ‎
Thumbscrew
T_Virus
Pelican
Various Artists - Hexadic III
Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
Weyes Blood
Yob
Yo La Tengo
YoshimiO / Susie Ibarra / Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Flowers of Sulphur

It’s about goddam time for a new fucking No Age.

checking....

my bloody valentine new album?

magik markers and bardo pond. have to watch out for these.

tears for fears? man..

They are one of the best pop bands ever! :)